Ch.37. of the iffite of .Beleewerc. they can claime. And for Pharifees he Bothriot barely yield them to be Church - Members, but alto Church- Teachers, Math 23.2. '2. I fay lohn Rapti,' Both not deny what Chrift yields, but lets them know that this plea will not ferve to avoid wrath, while they live in impenitence ; notwithftanding that this plea holds, they may perifh , and yet Gods Covenant with Abraham hold ; being able of ftones to raife up children unto t4brah gym, to make good what in Covenant he had faid., He no where fayes that they are not entitled to priviledges of Ordinances, and thereby intereffed in the prerogatives of Gods vifible people. What Paul Rom.9. 4, 5' . fo largely yields them John Baptifi in that place doth not deny them, which alto now they had in vifible pofTeflï- on. All forts of men, farre better by priviledge of birth in civil things, Prod. 19. 14. Hottfe and riches are the inheritance of fa- thers. The Jews fared better refpeh }ive to Religious things, Rom. 3..1. What advantage then hath the fece? or what profit if there of Cie- ! crimcifion I Much every way. Priviledge of Ordinance in the Church ofGod, is a Birth inheritance. C H A P. XXXV II. The Covenant in New Teflament -times takes in pa- rents with their children. ) Ut in cafe all this be yielded in Old Tefament -times , that L) the Covenant entred was in this latitude , that the whole of Abrahams feed Were taken with him into Covenant and that then it ran in a race by carnal! defcent, -yet it is otherwife at leaf in New Teftament- times, No childe fares now the better I refpec`l:ive to any vifible Church- interef for the Faith or Reli- gion of their Ancefours. And here is a fourth difference be- tween the firf and fecond, the Old and New Covenant accord ing to Tome. The firf Covenant was entred in that latitude , to take in Children with their Parents, Poferity with their Ance- fours, according to the Charter fo long infifled ton : But in New Teftament- times, the Covenant reaches no farther then the perfon that actually enters; he Covenants for himfelf, his feed M m 2 have
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